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Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 Sony Mount Now Available

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Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 Sony Mount

Tokina have just announced that they are about to launch their 11-16mm f2.8 AT-X Pro DX lens with a Sony Alph mount. Until now this has only been available for Canon and Nikon users. The new Sony Mount 11-16mm went on sale in Japan yesterday (Feb 24th 2010) with a global roll out expected to [...]

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Canon 50mm f1.4 USM Lens Review

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Canon 50mm f1.4 USM lens Review

We’ve written a lot on Digital SLR Guru about the Canon 50mm f1.8 lens. In fact for about two years it was my go to lens that rarely got taken off my camera. All this changed however when I decided to upgrade to it’s older brother the Canon EF f1.4 50mm….
What are the main differences [...]

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Canon EF 24-105mm f4 L Lens Review

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Canon 24-105mm Lens Review

The aim of this lens is to provide professional photographers with a small, portable standard zoom lens to use on everyday shoots. At is widest this lens provides the photographer with a great wide angle while also having the ability to zoom to just over the 100mm mark.

It must be remembered that if you are [...]

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What Is The Best Walkabout Lens?

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One question we get asked about all of the time is “what is the best walkabout lens?”.
This got us thinking about why the usual answer is a zoom lens with a large focal range and what other alternatives are out there.
What is a Walkabout Lens?
In order to be able to answer this question we must [...]

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Lowepro Slingshot 300aw Camera Bag Review

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Lowepro 300 Camera Bag Review

The unique design of the Lowepro SlingShot 300 AW (and it’s younger brothers the 200 and 100) provides you with quick access to your dslr without the need to remove the bag from your body. The 300 AW aims to solve the age old problem with traditional camera bags which is that in order to [...]

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Canon EF-S 10-22mm Lens Review

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Canon 10-22mm Lens Review

The Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM lens is currently Canon’s widest lens in its entire EF/EF-S lens line up. In the world of wide angle lenses to fit crop sensor cameras this is one of the most talked about and popular. The 10mm range is the equivalent of 16mm on taking into account your cropped [...]

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Canon EFS 18-200mm f3.5-5.6 Lens Review

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Canon 18-200m Lens Review

A zoom lens with a big range is what many people are looking for when they upgrade from the kit lens they got with their SLR. As a result the Canon EF-S 18-200mm IS lens will be one that many people will consider when looking to upgrade.
Canon have pitched this lens firmly at the ‘all [...]

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Speedlight Battery Test

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Speed Light Batteries

Once you start using your camera off flash regularly you will probably realize sooner or later that you are spending quite a lot on batteries. We recently started wondering what was the best kind of speedlight battery out there to get the most flashes for our buck. After a bit of research and some experimentation [...]

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Upgrading Your Kit Lens

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After having your first digital slr it almost certainly will not be long before you start thinking about upgrading your kit lens. The standard 18-55 mm lens you get with most canon digital slrs does a good job. Not only does it provide you with a fairly large focal range but it produces pretty good [...]

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Canon EF 100mm f2.8 Macro Lens Review

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Canon EF 100mm f2.8 Macro Lens

If you are looking to buy a macro lens then the 100mm may well be on your short list. Below we’ll review this lens highlighting both it’s strengths and weaknesses.
Build Quality  & Usability
The build quality is as you would expect from Canon, solid as a rock. In fact this lens would not be out of [...]

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